Pia Öste-Alexander’s artistic life
Pia Öste-Alexander, artist, activist, matriarch, and proud Woodstocker, died in her Wittenberg home after a brief illness on New Year’s Day at the age of 86.
Entertainment
It’s always tea time at Millerton’s Harney & Sons, purveyor to palaces
Harney & Sons offers more than 300 tea blends, including a line created by John Harney for the Historic Royal Palaces of England. Their teas are blended and packaged in a 90,000-square-foot warehouse in Millerton, and 200 employees staff a bottling plant in Hudson.
Learn about the hidden world of bats in New Paltz
Saturday, Jan. 13: Author/artist Barbara Bash will talk about the year she spent with little brown bats, learning how they give birth, raise their young, fly, hunt with echolocation (catching 600 mosquitos an hour) and gather at bat “conventions” before going into hibernation inside the caves before reemerging in spring.
Playing the hand we’re dealt in Molly’s Game
It’s based on a memoir written by an Olympic-caliber skier sidelined by a serious injury who makes a shady new career running high-stakes poker games, then refuses to name names once her operation is busted.
Dar Williams to play at Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock
Saturday, Jan. 13: The people at Levon Helm Studios know when a hard sell is not required. Their promotional copy in advance of Dar William’s performance there declares simply, “named one of America’s very best songwriters by The New Yorker.” Enough said.
Bunkhouse Boys at Kingston’s White Eagle
Friday, Jan. 12: Regional Cajun aficionados lead a Cajun Dance at the White Eagle Benevolent Society in Kingston. Laissez les bons temps rouler. Beginners are welcome, and there will be a lesson before the show.
Kids’ Almanac: Jan. 11-18
Winterfest on the Hudson Valley Rail Trail, MLK birthday festivities, build a buttefly house and take a Haunted History tour of Beekman Arms
Erica’s Cancer Journey: Planting seeds in the psyche
How about some real reflection during this new spin around the sun? Here are three prompts that I find helpful.
Lake Street Dive’s Rachael & Vilray to play Helsinki Hudson
Friday, Jan. 19: Club Helsinki in Hudson was early in as a forecaster of the impending breakout fame of Lake Street Dive, the jazz/roots/pop hitmakers who have carved themselves a unique place in the Americana musical landscape. Now Club Helsinki gets some back-end payback when Lake Street Dive vocalist Rachael Price revives an especially fine project from her past.
Arndt’s mural at Woodstock Bank of America will stay in place…for now
‘We are also considering its future home if the need comes for that. We want it available to the Town’s people…’